This season of Law & Order: CI remained in its time slot of NBC Sunday's at 9PM/8c, its final season in this slot on NBC; its move to Tuesdays in the sixth season caused a ratings decline. During the 2005–2006 network TV season episodes were up against episodes of Desperate Housewives on ABC and episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! on Fox. The show "roller coasted" in the ratings with the competition, but NBC executives were impressed with the 11 million viewers per week it was able to retain.

Employees of the Kerala Gramin Bank (KGB) have launched an agitation demanding permanent jobs for 170-odd casual staff in the bank. The employees are also demanding filling of office assistant vacancies... Midhun, acting general secretary of the Kerala Gramin Bank Employees Union....

YesBank is likely to appoint Brahm Dutt, a former bureaucrat, to the board of the bank as a non-executive chairman ... Shares of Yes Bank were ... According to sources, the bank’s board now has one vacancy, which was the result of the resignation of independent director R Chandrashekhar....

The advertisement of 38 vacancy for specialist cadre officer on contractual basis was issued by StateBank of India on November 22. Candidates can apply for any of the 14 posts given in the recruitment of State Bank of India....

After the meeting, the bank will send the name of the candidate to the ReserveBank of India...There is one more vacancy and the bank said that the nomination and remuneration committee has also evaluated profiles for additional directors especially with information technology expertise, to lead their IT Strategy Committee....

Singh said 10 ministries and departments having more than 90 per cent of the employees in the central government, including PSUbanks and financial institutions, central PSUs reported that out of the 92,589 backlog vacancies for SCs, STs and OBCs, 63,876 vacancies of SCs, STs and OBCs remained unfilled as on January 1 last year....

New ReserveBank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das took charge on Wednesday, promising to uphold its autonomy and integrity, a day after the government moved swiftly to appoint him to the helm of the central bank to fill the vacancy left by Urjit Patel’s resignation....

The Export-Import Bank, which was unable for several years to take major actions because of board vacancies, and which some conservative lawmakers tried to abolish, dropped by 18 percentage points, to where only 37% of workers feel positively engaged at the office....

"We are deeply concerned that the enduring absence of consensus in the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) to fill the vacancies on the Appellate Body risks undermining the viability of the WTO dispute settlement system ...Banks, ArcelorMittal oppose Essar Steel proposal. Any attempt by govt to curtail central bank's independence credit negative....